ARM's new chip to transform smartphones

ARM
Holdings latest chip will transform smartphones, making them five times more
powerful, the manufacturer claims.

Ian Drew,
ARM's marketing director, said the new Cortex A15 chip, code named Eagle, would
allow smartphones to deliver ‘five times better content and five times better
performance.’

He said the
chip would allow developers to design a new generation of applications, adding,
‘It will be like carrying a computer around in your pocket, but it will only be
the size of a phone and will have the battery life to last all day.’

ARM has signed initial agreements with Texas Instruments, ST-Ericsson and
Samsung so far.